Can robots help with that? We think they can. Our education team had
a
first meeting to get trained in giving programming workshops using
freedroidz robots. We want to teach pupils how to program, show them
that it's good to share and co-operate, and explain Free Software to
their teachers, parents, and
politicians.

And what about football? Regular readers might remember that Guido
Arnold is running a parallel tournament to the football championship in
Europe 2012 where the discipline is Free Software usage in government.
So every time there is a football match, Guido starts a Free Software
match between them, while a huge part is of course the government's
education policy. Read Guido's blog
to find out why Russia is a hot candidate for the European champion, but
why we need more information on Eastern European countries.

Public institutions - hares or snails?

Already, 203 public institutions have removed advertisements for
proprietary PDF readers from their websites. Particularly outstanding
were the responses from Croatia, Russia and Slovenia. In Croatia all
except one reported institution deleted the advertisement. Half of those
contacted in Russia and Slovenia fulfilled FSFE's request. Amongst the
public institutions are ministries, parliaments, law enforcement
agencies, local governments, and other administrations.

Current developments at Nokia, the transformative power of Free
Software, and the potential dangers posed by the use of Free Software
by large organisations. Those are the topics of the current
Fellowship interview with Alexander Kahl, Fedora packager, Lisp,
JavaScript and
Perl programmer, and active FSFE volunteer.

Get active: Help with Euro 2012 championship

Help us gathering information about government's Free Software usage.
This information helps us to evaluate the current situation and of
course it will decide who will be the European Free Software champion in
2012. Add
the information on our website before March 25 and it will
influence the next matches, add information continuously and it will
help Free Software activists all over the world.